On Jul 29, 2014, at 1:44 AM, John Collier colli...@ukzn.ac.za wrote:
I made the relevant distinctions in a book chapter in 1990,
Intrinsic Information (1990)
but I had to introduce some new concepts and definitions to the usual
thermodynamic ones. The lack of those has caused multiple
Thursday: Session C: I decided on presentations by several Brazilian
scholars on Epistemology Ontology: Abduction, Reality, God. They were all
very good, and in particular the paper by Rodrigo Vieira de Almeida, which
both Soren Brier and I found compelling. Title: Some Reflections on the
List,
I've been encouraged off-list to share at least some of the notes that I
took while at the Peirce Centennial Congress at U. of Mass., Lowell, and on
the journey that some of us took directly afterward to Milford, PA, the
trip having the express purpose of placing a plaque commemorating the
List,
My second post was sent out inadvertently. Please do NOT read it;
immediately delete it. It was completely unedited, and there are
unfortunately personal remarks I would never have made public, and in fact,
revised my thinking about subsequently.
I deeply regret that it was sent, and I'm
John wrote:
I should have said as well that my student, Scott Muller, (073014-1)
was able to prove that the information content I refer to
is unique. He uses group theory following he argument I made
that information originates in symmetry breaking. His book
is Asymmetry: The Foundation of
Dear Ben,
Thanks for your comments and my responses to some of them follow:
Sung, you wrote to Stephen,
[QUOTE]
Your written word just conveyed energy to my (6231-1)
fingers to say NO.
I did not write any words on a piece of paper (which would have been
an example of
One brief last point. I think Peirce’s distinctions between token, type, and
tone are rather helpful here and should be kept in mind. Of course the
token/type distinction in particular can be blurry but I’m not sure that’s
relevant to the discussion at hand.
My sense is that the
